John C. McGinley
Birthday: 3 August 1959, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: John Christopher McGinley
Height: 188 cm
John C. McGinley's path to stardom is a story that reads like a classic Hollywood script. While an understudy in New York in the Circle-In-The-Square production of John Patrick Shanley's &qu ...Show More
I have mixed feelings about Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) Because we shot it as a musical and whoeve Show more
I have mixed feelings about Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) Because we shot it as a musical and whoever the studio head was at Orion, or whoever the powers that be were, cut all but, like, two musical numbers out of it. That is the same as cutting the musical numbers out of The Wizard of Oz (1939); it wouldn't be that interesting. So the film, to me, doesn't make sense without the musical numbers in it. They kept in one of Buster [Poindexter's] musical numbers. And then maybe there's one other, but the film doesn't make sense. I wouldn't pretend to know what happened, what the decision-making process was, but we busted our humps on those numbers, and then the film came out and I didn't understand what I was watching.Because Orion was also producing a film in Kansas City called Article 99 (1992), I was doing them simultaneously. I would do Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) Monday through Wednesday, and they'd fly me last flight out from Toronto to Kansas City to shoot Thursday and Friday in Kansas City. And that happened for about four weeks. I love grinding like that. Hide
[on talking to his Any Given Sunday (1999) costar, Al Pacino] When Johnny [John Cusack] and I were s Show more
[on talking to his Any Given Sunday (1999) costar, Al Pacino] When Johnny [John Cusack] and I were shooting The Jack Bull (1999) in Calgary, he told me just to go up and knock on Al's trailer door. That's the secret of talking to him. If no one knocks on his door, he stays closeted up by himself. It really worked. I spent a lot of time talking to Al. Hide
I did Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), with Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert down in Buenos Show more
I did Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), with Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert down in Buenos Aires, and I stunk. I was infatuated with Orson Welles' filmography at the time, so I wanted to see if I could make my voice as low as his, and I succeeded. Nothing in the text supported that choice, though, so in the film, I look like a jackass. I don't look like a tough guy, I look like an idiot actor trying to toy around with his vocal apparatus. Hide
[on why he feels he never landed a role as a TV series regular until Scrubs (2001)] With my dorky he Show more
[on why he feels he never landed a role as a TV series regular until Scrubs (2001)] With my dorky head, I guess I just wasn't handsome enough. I'd do the audition but never hear back. TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle. Hide
[on his road to stardom] I dug tungsten. I was a successful waiter in New York. I worked at a shrink Show more
[on his road to stardom] I dug tungsten. I was a successful waiter in New York. I worked at a shrink-wrap factory. I wrote tickets on the New York Stock Exchange. I was an assistant to a broker. I caddied the U.S. Open, and I was a camp counselor. Hide
The [Scrubs (2001)] pilot script's notes described the character as a John C. McGinley-type. Now, I Show more
The [Scrubs (2001)] pilot script's notes described the character as a John C. McGinley-type. Now, I don't know what that type is, but I said, "Well, you've got him." I still had to audition five times for the network. Hide
(2013, on landing Office Space (1999)) When you came in, everybody auditioned for the role Gary Cole Show more
(2013, on landing Office Space (1999)) When you came in, everybody auditioned for the role Gary Cole played. That was the audition piece, since the two Bobs weren't really on the page. So before you came in, you were issued illustrations and sent a file on your computer of an animated version of the role that Gary played. Everybody came in and auditioned for that. Then Gary got that, and Mike said, "You want to play one of the Bobs?" And I'm like, "Dude, I just want to be in this movie. It's the funniest thing I've ever read. But who are the Bobs?" And he goes, "We'll invent them down in Austin."Everybody says that to you, and it never happens. What we're going to invent when you get there on the day is that the 10k light just went out, and that's what we're going to address, not the Bobs doing the interviews. But he was true to his word, and I was only down there for three days, which is fantastic because we just stayed in. I'm only in two or three different interiors, that interview room and out in the office and then at the stapler guy's desk. That's it. So for three days, we just immersed into that and shot tons and tons of stuff for those people coming in when we're going to fire them or downsize. We just started to roll camera and do stuff. Hide
[on how he memorizes his lines and prepares for his roles] I go downstairs and don't come up from th Show more
[on how he memorizes his lines and prepares for his roles] I go downstairs and don't come up from there until I get that stuff hammered in my skull, until I can do it water skiing or jumping out of a plane. It's all about the text, flushing it out, to excavate, to really get in there and see what falls through your fingers. Hide
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